The department offers practical knowledge and skills.

Civil engineering involves a variety of specialties: bridges, rivers, water treatment, urban planning, highways, and recycling. Civil engineering work is usually performed in teams, so civil engineers need not only technical knowledge, but also insight into the social and humanistic implications of technology. This is why the department attaches importance to subjects offered by the General Education Division.

Students are required to take a limited number of compulsory subjects, but are free to take electives including basic theory, experiments, seminars, and computer processing. In the junior and senior years, students are required to attend seminars, each of which is composed of about eight students under one teacher. This gives them opportunities to gain useful employment advice from their instructors.

The entire curriculum, organized by the guidelines provided by the Board for Engineering Education (JABEE), ensures that students will become competent civil engineers knowledgeable of the natural and social context of the practice of civil engineering.

Educational objectives

A) Broad outlook and ethics for engineers
To acquire knowledge of the harmony existing between civil engineering technology, humans, and the natural environment. Also, to develop a broad outlook concerning cultures, histories, religions, and so forth, and to think of our responsibility to society as an engineer.

(A-1) Develop the students' personal and professional judgment by taking courses in the humanities and social sciences.

(A-2) Cultivate the students' well-being through courses in physical education and the health sciences, in order that the students might preserve and improve their physical strength and lead a healthy life.

(A-3) Give the students opportunities to contemplate the influence of civil engineering technology on humans and the natural environment.

B) Expertise and its applications
To acquire a basic knowledge of civil engineering (urban environmental technology) and apply that knowledge toward solving various problems related to civil engineering.

(B-1) Acquire a basic knowledge of natural environmental engineering, and understand the relationship between nature and human society.

(B-2) Gain a basic knowledge of social planning, and develop the ability to think in terms of the urban development project.

(B-3) Develop a basic knowledge of construction-structural engineering, and develop the ability to design safe and functional civil engineering structures.

(B-4) Achieve an overall knowledge of civil engineering (urban environmental technology), and develop the ability to design practical applications.

C) Natural Science and its applications
To acquire a fundamental knowledge of mathematics and the other natural sciences, and apply that knowledge toward the solutions of various problems related to civil engineering.

(C-1) Enhance the academic abilities and skills necessary for technological innovation through the learning of the natural sciences.

(C-2) Develop the ability to create practical applications within the whole field of civil engineering (urban environmental technology) through the learning of applied mathematics.

D) Communication ability
The ability to participate in interpersonal communication in various business situations, give effective presentations, and engage in international exchanges of information and ideas.

(D-1) Improve the student's working knowledge of Japanese and foreign languages necessary for meaningful and constructive informational exchanges.

(D-2) Foster the student's ability to present their B.A. thesis in a clear and understandable way.

E) Positive Attitude and self-directed learning habits
Establish a positive attitude toward problem-solving and develop self-directed learning habits.

(E-1) Acquire the habit of self-directed learning by attending basic seminars on civil engineering (urban environmental technology).

(E-2) Create a positive attitude toward problem-solving through the completion of the B.A. thesis.

F) The ability to work on the tasks requiring careful planning
The ability to perform experiments and participate in practical training requiring careful planning.

(F-1) Perform experiments and participate in practical training in civil engineering within a collaborative group, and to complete the analysis and summarize the results on time.

(F-2) Under the teachers' direction, perform experiments and participate in practical training related to the B.A. thesis, and complete the analysis and summarize the results in a timely manner.

G) Develop skills applicable to the practical business side of civil engineering
To develop skills that will contribute to local industries through the learning of information processing, (location) surveying, construction management, and so forth.

H) The ability to integrate learned knowledge and general information
The ability to solve issues and problems uncovered during the process of combining activities and information collections, and to then integrate this with knowledge of civil engineering, and summarize it as a technical report.